AI en Translation, Pages 51-75
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Department Copy
Corrected
7/7/947
To the honorable Professor Muhammad Raif al-Qazzaz,
Director of Administration and Editorial of the esteemed Al-Hurriya newspaper
Editor-in-Chief of the esteemed ⟦Al-Bilad⟧ newspaper
As per the enclosed ⟦...⟧ 7/7
Greetings,
Your recently published newspaper and the copy of the first issue sent with
the statement
Reference to your letter regarding the subscription to your newspaper.
We regret very much that we are unable to subscribe to your newspaper due to the exhaustion of credits
allocated for this purpose.
Please accept our respects.
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Community
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Al-Sijil
Daily Political Newspaper
Owner
Taha Al-Fayad Al-Ani
Baghdad - Haydarkhana
Al-Rashid Street
No. ⟦...⟧
Date / /
⟦Newspapers⟧
Nabil Hamdi
Representative of the esteemed Al-Sijil newspaper
His Eminence, the Head of the Jewish Community
Do you sympathize with the Palestinian cause..? And what are your feelings toward Zionism..?
How do you interpret it.. and why..?
File
Separately
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Al-Hurriya (Freedom)
A Comprehensive Weekly Newspaper
Administration: Al-Jadirji Building - Al-Rashid Street
Baghdad
Telephone:
To be preserved
To the Virtuous Excellency, the Honorable Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri
Greetings and Respect:
Relying on God and counting on your support and encouragement for the Iraqi press, we have resolved to
issue a weekly newspaper that discusses literary, cultural, and social affairs, which we have named
(Al-Hurriya). We humbly place it in your hands, full of hope that it will gain your satisfaction and acceptance so that we may
continue its publication to serve the public interest, despite the difficulties and
obstacles facing the press here, as you know. We will exert all efforts to move (Al-Hurriya) always forward with God's help.
We kindly ask you to inform us if you wish to subscribe so that we may send it to you regularly on
Monday of every week, which is its date of publication.
Please accept our deepest gratitude and utmost respect,
Sincerely,
Sulhi Mustafa
Director of Administration and Editing
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5/../1947
Respected Director of Al-Zahra Newspaper
After greetings,
Reference to your recently published magazine, a copy of which was sent to us.
We deeply regret our inability to subscribe to your newspaper due to the exhaustion of the funds
allocated for this purpose.
Please accept our respects,
⟦illegible⟧
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Head of the Community
⟦Newspapers⟧
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259
6/14/1947
To the Honorable Editor of the distinguished Al-Jamia newspaper
After greetings
With reference to your recently published newspaper, a copy of which was sent to us.
We regret very much that we are unable to subscribe to your newspaper due to the exhaustion of credits
allocated for this purpose, and as per the enclosed receipt previously sent to us.
Please accept our respects
⟦signature⟧
6/12
Head of the Community
⟦For filing⟧
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202
7/7/947
To the honorable Director of Al-Sawt Magazine
Greetings,
With reference to your recently published magazine, a copy of which was sent to us.
We deeply regret ⟦our inability to⟧ subscribe to your magazine due to the exhaustion of credits
allocated for this purpose.
Please accept our respects
⟦illegible⟧
On behalf of the Head of the Sect
For filing
⟦illegible⟧
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7/7/1947
Respected Director of Al-Sabah Magazine,
After greetings,
Reference to your recently issued magazine, a copy of which was sent to us.
We deeply regret ⟦our inability to⟧ subscribe to your magazine due to the exhaustion of credits
allocated for this purpose.
Please accept our respect.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
⟦illegible⟧
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15/8/1947
To the Honorable Director of Al-Husoon Magazine
Registered at the Post Office No. 243
Baghdad
After greetings
With reference to your recently published magazine, a copy of which was sent to us
We regret very much our inability to subscribe to your magazine due to the exhaustion of credits
allocated for this purpose
Please accept our respects,
⟦illegible⟧
Head of the Community
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⟦Expenditure⟧
⟦Community Affairs⟧
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9/⟦10⟧/1947
Child Protection Society
Baghdad
After greetings,
Reference to your letter No. 102/M/7 dated 6/9/1947.
Below you will find a statement on the occasion of issuing a special issue of your magazine for its first general meeting.
With ⟦please accept⟧ respect
Head of the Community
I am pleased to address — through this flourishing magazine — a message of greeting and blessing to the mother
and the child. Celestial religions, in their desire for the happiness of humans and society, have urged us to care for
motherhood and childhood and have magnified their importance in building the family; motherhood and childhood are subsequently the pillars of the nation
and the guarantee of its future. How worthy it is for us to grant mothers and children all the care and attention we possess
to raise a living, rising nation that occupies its prominent place among the nations of the earth.
The Iraqi Child Protection Society has set a good example in caring for motherhood and watching over
innocent childhood, and it is a duty for every individual of this people to support this society
and assist it in carrying out the serious mission it has taken upon itself. We ask God to bless
its efforts and endeavors directed towards the good of the country and its youth.
Before I conclude this short statement, I would like to salute the Mother and Child magazine on the occasion of
completing its first year of its long life. I have no doubt that this refined magazine, with the studies
and benefits it publishes, performs its share of service for the sake of the greatest goal, which is guiding
motherhood and supporting childhood, and from God comes success.
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Head of the Israelite Community
In Baghdad
⟦...⟧
For filing
⟦...⟧
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Al-Muharrir
A general weekly critical magazine
Number:
Date: 12/9/1947
File: ⟦line⟧
His Excellency the Respected Head of the Jewish Community
I have received your letter No. 9177 dated 12/25/1946
a few days ago, following my return from a trip outside Baghdad. And
I was very pleased to find you among the leading supporters of this art, which
always needs someone to support and champion it, especially in our country.
Your aforementioned letter has encouraged me to send you my new
effort - Al-Muharrir magazine - hoping for acceptance and subscription to it, and we will provide you
with all issues as they are published on a regular basis.
In conclusion, I request your kindness in ordering those concerned to deliver
the Dinar that you have generously granted into the hands of its bearer and to consider this letter of mine
as a receipt by which I acknowledge its delivery, and please accept my many thanks
and highest regards.
Sincerely,
⟦illegible⟧
Haji Sadiq Al-Haji Salim
12 / 9 / ⟦47⟧
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⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
After greetings
I have previously sent to you
with a book from me ⟦...⟧
an order to whom it may concern to return
your book to be kept
with me. Along with the dinar that
you kindly provided and three other
dinars for your subscription in my
new magazine. Sincerely,
⟦illegible⟧ the lawyer
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Al-Mujarrad
A comprehensive weekly critical magazine
Number ::
Date :: 9/27/1947
File ::
Administrative Office of His Eminence the Rabbi
The Honorable Head of the Israelite Community
After greetings.
I hereby acknowledge my receipt of one Dinar only, the price for publishing the statement
of the Honorable Rabbi, Head of the Israelite Community, for my second collection.
⟦signature⟧
Lawyer Su'ad Al-Hakkak
Owner of the second collection
And owner of Al-Mujarrad
SD
Press Affairs
Suad Salim
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Al-Sharq
A Comprehensive Daily Newspaper
Owner: Abdul Baqi Al-Ani
Administration: Al-Aquliya Mosque
Baghdad
Issue ⟦illegible⟧ 19
Date September 27, 1947
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, Respected
After greetings: In view of the recent developments reached by the
Palestine issue - which is the issue of the entire homeland - the management of this
newspaper has decided to issue a book containing within its covers the opinions and suggestions
of religious leaders and spiritual heads; therefore, we request you
to provide us with your generous opinion for the management of this newspaper for the purpose
of publishing it as a private opinion for the Jews of Iraq, our brothers in views,
and thank you in advance.
Administrative Manager
⟦Response of Al-Sharq newspaper in Al-Adab newspaper⟧
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9/10/1947
To the esteemed Director of Al-Sharq Newspaper
Greetings,
I have received with thanks your letter No. 19 dated September 27, 1947, regarding the Palestine issue.
I would like to inform you that I have previously made a statement defining the position of Iraq's Jews regarding
the Palestine issue, which was published in Al-Zaman Newspaper, issue No. 2987, dated August 4, 1947.
A copy of it is included below.
Please accept my highest respects.
Sincerely,
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Community
Press Affairs
Copy of the Statement
Our representative met with His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad,
and asked him about the malicious rumors suggesting the ill-treatment of Jews in Arab countries. His Eminence said:
Some of these rumors are purposeful, as is well known, and I am pleased to take this opportunity
to reaffirm once again what I have declared and stated before on various occasions, that Iraqi Jews
live in this country as its own people, just as they have lived throughout ancient ages, linked to their fellow
countrymen by the strongest bonds of intimacy and affection, receiving the kindest treatment and best care from their government.
His Eminence added: Jews do not feel that they are strangers in this country; they
enjoy the rights of citizens, having the same rights and duties as all other citizens. I have previously
explained this clearly to the members of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry who visited Baghdad a
year and a half ago.
The Head of the Jewish Community concluded his statement by saying that the future of Iraq's Jews
is linked to this country, which they have inhabited for over two thousand years, speaking its language, adopting its morals,
working in various fields of activity, serving it with their knowledge, culture, and wealth, and sharing its joys
and sorrows. It goes without saying that Zionism has never been able, and the one hundred and twenty thousand
Iraqi Jews look to Iraq as their homeland, and they have no homeland but it.
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To the Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
The Petition
I have a proposal to submit to the headquarters of the respected Community regarding ⟦establishing⟧ a press branch at the Community headquarters
to respond to the defamation and provocative articles carried out by some fanatical and biased newspapers
against the Jews of Iraq, and I am ready to volunteer for service in this division for free daily
Victor Manshi Salman Robin
Suliman
From the residents of Basra
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732/104 M
653
Special retirement form for the re-estimation of the bonus
Based on the session of the commission on September 21, 732, and in the meeting of November 21, 732, and whereas
the petitioner, Asma Hanem Salloum, has submitted a request asking for a reconsideration of the commission's decision issued in the session of
November 21, 732, which ruled to grant her 7,826 Dinars as a retirement bonus for her period of service at the
Noor Aini School for Girls
The commission decided the following:
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Head of the Physical Council
Reasons for Appeal
1- That the commission's estimation of the bonus issued regarding the wife of the person requesting the bonus is contrary to the Pension and Salaries Law
2- That the commission did not take into account that the salary her husband was receiving at the time of his death was higher than what was
estimated for her in the decision, and that the salary based on which the bonus was calculated does not agree with reality
3- That the commission did not consider that the petitioner is a widow and has a stepdaughter whom she supports and lives with her, and
the petitioner is the sole provider for her aforementioned daughter due to the absence of relatives, and it was stated in Article
10 of the Pension Law the text: (The retiree who receives a pension salary, a bonus, or a family salary is entitled)
and his family members mentioned in the said article of this law are entitled
4- That the salary her husband was receiving was ⟦...⟧ Dinars per month and not as stated in the decision
5- That the commission did not consider that the petitioner's health condition does not allow her to work and that she needs someone to support her
6- That the commission did not consider that the petitioner served at the Noor Aini school for a long period and that she deserves a bonus
more than what was decided for her
7- That the commission did not consider that Article 12 of the Pension Law stipulates that the bonus is calculated on the basis of
the last salary the employee was receiving before his death, and that the salary her husband was receiving was more
than what was decided in the decision, and the petitioner requests a reconsideration of the commission's decision mentioned above
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Directorate of Statistics
6672
Name | Address
1 Salman Daniel | c/o Salem Shamoon - Baghdad
2 Haron Shehati | Residence: Al-Rawaq St. 6 and 10/15 (Submit list to the shop - Safafeer)
3 British Equipment Store | Al-Rashid Street
4 Jameel Maqam Salon ⟦Susan⟧ | Khan Rahmani Masri - Safafeer
5 Shaoul Naftali | Khan Al-Muradiya Al-Kabeer
6 Eliyahu Hayyuri | Khan Al-Muradiya Al-Kabeer
7 Hayyawi Shirazi | Residence: - Asfar Street 21/7/8 (Submit list to the shop - Khan Al-Muradiya Al-Kabeer)
8 Meshi Shaoul Shashoua | Khan Shaoul Shashoua - Safafeer
9 Haron Hizqiyal Zakai and Salim Ishaq Dawud | Khan Jerkaysi Al-Kabeer
10 Yusuf Fattal and Sons | Khan Yusuf Fattal 10/5/8 - Safafeer
11 Adwar Abboudi Bank | Al-Samawal Street
12 Ephraim Fattal and Ezra Dangoor | Safafeer 7/8/6
For filing
Newspaper affairs
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The Newspaper - The Editor
Number - 8 -
Date - December 12, 1947 .
The forces of the Arabs have united today
So woe to the Jews and their supporters
We do not want by writing these words to defame the Jews or list their countless disadvantages or
call upon the Arabs to do to them as Nazi Germany did in the recent past. Rather, we wanted to say
frankly to the Jews that their crooked behavior with all nations and the Arabs in particular and their deviation from the right path is
what has brought and brings upon them calamities and afflictions in all parts of the world. And to ask them now to correct their position
towards the nations and peoples among whom they live and to blend with them sincerely as others do and not to think of
a nationality other than the nationality of the country whose land carries them and whose sky shades them and to forget building what they call Solomon's Temple
in Jerusalem, a spot in the Arab lands, and to leave Arab Palestine to its Arab people and remove the idea of establishing
the alleged Jewish state from their imagination for the sake of gathering the world's wandering Jews in Palestine, the heart
of the Arab lands, at the expense of its Arab people.
If the Jews in general do not take advice and return to their senses, their evil deeds will soon surround them, and they will be
going to their end by themselves, and this sedition of theirs will be the reason leading to their eradication and the uprooting of their roots
from the earth. For they are a few and the whole Arab world is resentful, indignant, loud, and angry, so let them not be deceived by promises and decisions
they obtain from the Western colonialists whenever they offer them fleeting money and the bribery that blinds their eyes.
The forces of the Arabs have united today, so woe to their enemies among the Jews and their supporters, for no one
among them will be able to stand before this massive Arab army, which is motivated to take revenge to cleanse the Holy Land.
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number - 562
Date - 1/30/1948
The Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad announces with great regret the death of His Eminence Rabbi Ibrahim
Aslan - former Deputy Haham Bashi and former head of the Jewish Spiritual Council in Baghdad
and former head of the Jewish Religious Court - God took him on Saturday, corresponding to 1/24/948
at the age of nearly one hundred years spent in righteousness and piety, and the funeral took place on Sunday, corresponding to 1/25/48
in a majestic procession led by His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri, President of the Jewish Community, who eulogized him
in the presence of the public. May the Lord cover the deceased with His vast mercy and grant his family patience and solace.
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Al-Fura'a
Please publish the above news in tomorrow's issue of your newspaper, and we thank you
Secretary
Al-Akhbar
Al-Zaman
⟦Al-Yaqdha⟧
Al-Zaman Newspaper
Al-Sha'ab
For publication
⟦Administrative Manager⟧
⟦Community Secretary⟧
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number - ⟦567⟧
Date - 25 / 1 / 1948
The Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad announces with great regret the death of His Eminence Rabbi Ibrahim
Aslan - former Acting Hakham Bashi and former President of the Jewish Spiritual Council in Baghdad
and former President of the Jewish Religious Court - God took him on Saturday, corresponding to 24 / 1 / 1948
at the age of nearly one hundred years, which he spent in righteousness and piety. The funeral took place on Sunday, 25 / 1 / 48
in a solemn procession led by His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, President of the Jewish Community, who eulogized him
before the public. May the Lord cover the deceased with His vast mercy and inspire his family with patience and solace.
⟦line⟧
Al-Akhbar
Al-Zaman Newspaper
Al-Sha'ab
We request the publication of the above news in the local section of your newspaper's issue tomorrow and we thank you
⟦signature⟧
The Secretary
⟦illegible stamp⟧
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Number -
Date - 22 / 2 / 1948
Memorial Service
A memorial service was held on the occasion of the death of His Eminence Rabbi Ibrahim Aslan, the former Acting Chief Rabbi
at the Meir Eliyahu Synagogue at ten-thirty in the morning on Saturday, February 21, 1948. The
deceased was eulogized by His Eminence Rabbi Daoud Hakham Yaqoub Hakham Yosef Hayyim. A second memorial
ceremony for the deceased was also held at the Mas'uda Shemtob Synagogue at four o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, February 23, 1948,
in which the deceased was eulogized by His Eminence Rabbi Moshe Ibrahim. These two ceremonies were attended by His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon
Khedhouri, President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, along with their Eminences the Rabbis and a large crowd of those who recognize the merit
of the deceased and his commendable services.
For filing
To
Al-Akhbar, Al-Zaman, and Al-Liwa Newspapers
We request the publication of the above news in the local section of your newspaper's issue tomorrow. Thank you.
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